Most wind turbine blades will, but apparently not that model. Yes, there was a microburst in Lawrence just a few years ago (2006?) which had winds probably strong enough to blow this tower down (among many other things winds blew down that day).

Nice, thebcman. Clever. More wasted CO2 on politics and demonstration projects.
Keep up the rhetoric.
Keep up the sniping.
Attack the messenger.
Avoid the numbers.
Play the green game and make people feel good when they should be really mad that this stuff doesn't work.

Repeat, this stuff doesn't work.

Get it? It is art, folks. They have no clue how much CO2 they used to build the thing and they can't tell you how much CO2 is saved either. It is a game. A children's game.

Grow up. Stop the demonstrations. They are simply propaganda.

Finally bsman, I did not build this thing. I could do a CO2 analysis of it, because I am an engineer. However, I didn't build it. It isn't my toy.
You should ask the designers at studio 4052265798 what the numbers are, not me.
If they can justify their expenditure of CO2, fine. I challenge them to do so.

The same expenditures and emissions would happen in constructing any sort of generating facility, Devo-- likely even more. The difference is that those emissions would continue for the lifetime of a fossil-fueled generator, whereas with this generator, there are no, or very few, such ongoing emissions.

But you knew that, didn't you? It's just not convenient to your ideology and it would detract from your rant.

Time to place your bets regarding how long this thing will last before it (1) self-destructs due to overspeed in high winds, (2) falls over due to high winds, or (3) just plain wears out. I'll start - 5 years max. If they want to use this for their "research" I'm fine with that, but small solitary turbines are not a viable alternative to fossil fuels.